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Re:St – A simple terminal implementation for X by woah on Thursday February 02, 2017 @07:18AM (#13549999)
Seems like kind of a pretentious choice... they've structured their program so the config file is a .h file just so you can feel cool when you compile it to change font size?
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Re:St – A simple terminal implementation for X by wtetzner on Thursday February 02, 2017 @07:35AM (#13550070)
I suspect it's not so you feel cool, but because it means the program doesn't need a parser for config files, and because it's more flexible.
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Re:St – A simple terminal implementation for X by contras1970 on Thursday February 02, 2017 @09:35AM (#13550741)
parserless configuration is easily achieved with stuff like envdir: https://cr.yp.to/daemontools/envdir.html
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Re:St – A simple terminal implementation for X by juliangoldsmith on Thursday February 02, 2017 @09:40AM (#13550779)
That just parses environment variables, instead of files.
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Re:St – A simple terminal implementation for X by wtetzner on Monday February 13, 2017 @12:36PM (#13637082)
Not to mention that it's yet another dependency, which is another thing that's avoided by doing configuration through a header file.
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